Robert
Swain Peabody (1845-1917) and John Goddard Stearns,
Jr. (1843-1917) established their architectural partnership
in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Spring of 1870. Together
they produced in excess of one thousand designs for buildings
throughout the United States; these included commercial, public,
ecclesiastical and school buildings as well as residences,
in an array of architectural styles. Their eclecticism embraced
High Victorian Gothic and Queen Anne Revival as well as French
Academic, Shingle Style and Georgian styles. Robert Peabody
was an influential proponent of the Colonial Revival in the
United States through his published writings and his designs
such as the Massachusetts State Building for the Chicago World
Columbian Exposition in 1893.